One Community is happy to welcome Bupesh Seethala  to the One Community Design Team!

Bupesh Seethala – Architectural Drafter & Designer, BS Electrical and Electronic Engineering: Bupesh has a year and half hands-on experience working with licensed architects performing interior and exterior design for both residential and commercial spaces. He is skilled in 3DS Max, V-ray, Photoshop, Sketchup, Aftereffects and AutoCAD. With designing and illustrating as his greatest passion, Bupesh is living in India and available for freelance planning. Right now he is looking for a job where he can work on modern and organic architecture to get some present-time global exposure as a Architectural Drafter and Designer. As a One Community partner, Bupesh has helped with the Sketchup plant placement and layout for the complete Earthbag Village and is also helping create realistic renders for the complete Phase I food infrastructure.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BUPESH!

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One Community is open sourcing sustainable civilizations for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#50) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 3rd, 2014:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Civilizations
One Community Weekly Progress Update #50

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed 25% of the Values Subject visual representation (see below)
• Completed 50% of the Art/Music and Trade Skill Subject image research
• Completed 50% of the new Social Sciences Complete Subject web page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:29

• Calculated Tropical Atrium Solar Heat Gain with respect to azimuth direction for 90 deg windows (see below)
• 30% done adding Tropical Atrium plants in 3-D (see below)
• Re-Calculated 60 degree South wall for the Large-scale Aquapini with 50% East-West walls
• Calculated the utility of water as a thermal mass including quantity and temperature
• Calculated sun declination to size the Tropical Atrium South wall glazing

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:14

• Completed Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium walkway redesign in 3-D  (see below)
• Completed the Straw Bale Village open source portal redesign
• Bupesh Seethalla completed the first round of plant additions to the Earthbag Village central ring (see below)
• Philip Gill began adding details to the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:57

• Completed internal sliding glass door framing and library hallway doors in 3-D  (see below)
• Completed 30% of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign (behind the scenes)
• Karl Harris finished a redesign of the 3rd to 4th floor stairs (see below)
• Rob Gjerde finished the natural pool design and complete hardware plan (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS: @6:12

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• Learn about the components: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the team began work on the Values Subject Molecule. Here is where we’re at so far:

One Community Open Source Education for Life: The Subject of Values – Click to Enlarge

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team finished about 30% of the 3-D plant additions for the Tropical Atrium:

Tropical Atrium Planting 3-D Export (2-14-2014) – Click for the Planting and Harvesting Details Page

We also calculated the Tropical Atrium Solar Heat Gain with respect to azimuth direction for 90 deg windows. Here are some screen shots of what that looked like:

Solar Heat Gain with Respect to Azimuth Direction for 90 Deg Windows – Click for the Heat and Humidity Details Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team also redesigned the Tropical Atrium walkways in 3-D to lower them sufficiently to allow for landscaping up to these paths so we won’t need safety railings.

Tropical Atrium Walkway Update in 3-D – 2/7/2014 – Click for the Open Source Hub

Bupesh Seethalla completed the first round of plant additions to the Earthbag Village central ring also using the Sketchup Plants Page:

Earthbag Village with Plants – 3-D Export: 2/14/2014 – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. This last week he added textures and started detailing the specific furniture pieces.

Earth Dome Home Furniture Design #2 in Progress (2/7/2014 export) – Click to Enlarge

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team completed all the internal sliding glass door framing and library hallway doors in 3-D:

Duplicable City Center Export: 2-7-2014 – Click for the Open Source Hub

Rob Gjerde (Swimming Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting) also finished the pool design and complete hardware plan. Now Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com) is pricing everything for us. We’ll be adding the complete page to the website as part of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign happening now. Here are some of the results of Rob’s work:

Natural Pool and Eco Hot Tub (2-7-2014) – Click for the Open Source Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also fixed the Dining Dome stairs, moved the Dining Dome exit door, fixed the loft area in CAD so it matches Sketchup, added in the elevator to the 4th floor, and redesigned the 4th floor stairs:

SEGO Center 4th Floor Stair Redesign in CAD

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is open sourcing sustainable civilizations by creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge growth on open sourcing sustainable civilizations.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through open sourcing sustainable civilizations. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation through an open sourcing sustainable civilizations, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model of open sourcing sustainable civilizations will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach of open sourcing sustainable civilizations that we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience while open sourcing sustainable civilizations. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others about open sourcing sustainable civilizations. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model of open sourcing sustainable civilizations. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world in spreading knowledge about open sourcing sustainable civilizations. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase the needed sustainability resources to help us achieve open sourcing sustainable civilizations, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand for open sourcing sustainable civilizations increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process of open sourcing sustainable civilizations globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world and help us achieving the open sourcing sustainable civilizations.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning towards an open sourcing sustainable civilizations.

Every aspect of open sourcing sustainable civilizations supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part of open sourcing sustainable civilizations is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible in order to spread the knowledge about open sourcing sustainable civilizations. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure to achieve open sourcing sustainable civilizations is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is here to help teach people how to make a change in the world while helping themselves and living for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first:
  

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

  Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

  

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#49) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 27, 2014:

How to Make a Change in the World
One Community Weekly Progress Update #49

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the “how to make a change in the world” video above:

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD INTRO @1:00

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:47

• Completed the Values image research
• Completed the Art/Music and Trade Skills content research
• Completed the Social Sciences Molecule (see below)
• Completed the open source Matter and Materials Lesson Plan page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:22

• Finished the starter house research that we’ll be posting on the Hoop House Page
• Tested a 5th Large-scale Aquapini roof and wall design (see below)
• Updated the open source Sketchup Plant database page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:15

• Straw Bale Village open source portal redesign is now 70% done
• Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium 3-D terrace specifics and pathways (see below)
• Completed the Earthbag Village central ring planting plan on paper (see below)
• Philip Gill has progressed the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Victor Herber has progressed the vermiculture toilet engineering (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:24

• Completed final 3-D window additions and 3-D Pool Details (see below)
• Karl Harris finished the resizing of all the dome wall thicknesses (see below)

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS: @9:24

• The Highest Good Business Open Source Portal redesign is now complete
• The Highest Good of All Comprehensive Stewardship Portal redesign is now complete

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD SUMMARY: @10:08

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HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• Learn about the components: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together:  How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the team finished the complete Social Sciences Molecule:

The Subjects of Social Sciences – Click for the page with an image you can enlarge

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity :

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team ran calculations on a 5th roof and wall design for the aquapinis & walipinis. All of these except the “full greenhouse” include shutters that we will build to cover all glazed areas at night:

Comparison of a 5th possible roof and wall design for the aquapinis – click for the Open Source Hub

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team took the 3-D work of Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) for the hands in the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village and we began adding in the terraces, paths, and other details:

Tropical Atrium Terraced Growing Areas, Paths, Benches, and Stairs

This last week the core team completed the Earthbag Village central ring planting plan on paper. Details for each of these plants can be found on the Food Forest Page. The 3-D source for all of these plants is on the Sketchup Plants Page. Permaculture is definitely a key tool we’re applying for how to make a change in the world.  Here’s the planting plan for the central ring of the village:

Earthbag Village Planting Plan Completed on Paper – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. There are two similar designs with the first being for children or a summer camp type of situation. It features two single beds and storage drawers underneath, two desks, two desk chairs, a chifferobe and a ladder to the loft/storage above.

The second is for interns or colleges students and has all the same elements as the first, but with added storage, file drawers on wheels (to come), and work-space tops that fold out for working, eating, etc. This way students can also sit at their bed and work or they could roll these together to create one bigger worktable.

Earthbag Village Furniture Design 2 Developing – Click Image for the Open Source Hub

Here is Victor Herber’s (Mechanical Engineer) most recent progress on the vermiculture toilet designs, sustainably processing human waste as a path for how to make a change in the world:

Vermiculture Toilet Specifications 2/6/14 Progress – Click Image for the Open Source Page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished adding the final two windows to the social dome (for natural lighting in the hallways) and also added in bench and stair details to the indoor and outdoor pool. Sustainably building as a path for how to make a change in the world:

One Community Duplicable City Center – 2/5/14 3-D Export – Click for the Open Source Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also finished the resizing of all dome wall thicknesses in CAD to reflect the accurate thickness of just 5 and 5/16″!

Duplicable City Center CAD Export 2/6/2014 – Click for the Open Source Hub

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CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and work together on how to make a change in the world. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place basing how to make a change in the world  on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy shares how to make a change in the world for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs (and in our case, desire for how to make a change in the world). Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community. Here are the constantly expanding hubs for everything we are open sourcing and free-sharing:

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution of the process for how to make a change in the world.

Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we show how to make a change in the world.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them.

The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere and teaching others how to make a change in the world too.

The most profound part of this model for how to make a change in the world is, the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still, the more we’ll be successful. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for how to make a change in the world will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees how to make a change in the world by seeing the world’s challenges as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is creating a world that works for everyone by providing the tools and resources needed to live and create for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first:
  

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

  Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

  

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of creating a world that works for everyone as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#48) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 20, 2014:

Creating a World that Works for Everyone
One Community Weekly Progress Update #48

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE INTRO @0:10

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:30

• Values image research is now 80% complete
• We are now organizing the Art/Music and Trade Skills molecule content
• The Matter and Materials Lesson Plan page is now 95% complete!

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:44

• 50 ‘final’ Food Forest page plants are done and on the site
• Highest Good food open source portal redesign is done
• Large-scale Aquapini 3-D continues to progress (see below)
• Aquapini roof lighting study is done to determine the best roof design (see below)
• The in-ground structural details continue to progress in CAD (see below)

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:04

• Earthbag Village: Began the planting plan details for the whole village (20% done)
• Redesigning the Straw Bale Village open source portal (50% done)
• Victor Herber completed the vermiculture toilet research for worm space and temperature needs and processing ability

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:41

• Finished the Social Dome bathrooms (see below)
• Finished CAD indoor pool and CAD window placement (see below)

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE CLOSE: @9:56

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE

We are creating a world that works for everyone through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity :

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting & harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team, with the help of Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics), finished the overflow pipe details, stone pathway, south sump-adjacent grow zones, plants in the pond, plant diversity in the DWC 1, and bell siphons:

Aquapini Grow Zones and Piping Evolving in Sketchup – Click to Enlarge

We also did a new and detailed sunlight and heat study on the Large-scale Aquapini for our specific location and with 4 different proposed roof designs. Here are the results showing the 12′ (3.66 m) South wall and 50% East and West won out as the best when combined with shutters that we will build to cover all glazed areas at night:

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) finished the basics of all 6 aquapini & walipini structures in CAD. Here’s the CAD export showing them:

Aquapinis and Walipinis Evolving in CAD – Click for the Open Source Hub

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS – CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE

We are creating a world that works for everyone through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub
  

This last week the team completed all the social dome bathroom details: mirrors, sinks, hand dryers, toilet paper dispensers, trash cans, and an adjacent cleaning closet:

Duplicable City Center Bathrooms Completed in 3-D – Click to Enlarge

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished the indoor pool and CAD window placement:

Duplicable City Center CAD Export 1/27/2014 – Click to Enlarge

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a world that works for everyone. It is a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate creating a world that works for everyone as the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub with this focus of creating a world that works for everyone. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions and move us much closer to creating a world that works for everyone.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to creating a world that works for everyone. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution purposed for creating a world that works for everyone, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village focused on creating a world that works for everyone. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training.

Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation and goals for creating a world that works for everyone, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world focused on creating a world that works for everyone.

We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors who also support the idea of creating a world that works for everyone. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, we also address the underlying roadblocks to creating a world that works for everyone by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others focused on creating a world that works for everyone also.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth towards creating a world that works for everyone. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is about creating a world that works for everyone.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make creating a world that works for everyone as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community’s goals for creating a world that works for everyone once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of creating a world that works for everyone through open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and creating a world that works for everyone. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them.

The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is excited to welcome Ron Payne to the core team as our first Satellite Member. Ron brings a broad diversity of hands-on experience covering everything from plumbing and welding to computer programming and troubleshooting to everything related to HVAC systems (boilers, turbines, heat exchangers, pumps, condensers, etc.). As a member of the team, he’s already begun applying this experience and knowledge to the heating and cooling strategies and systems for both the One Community Highest Good food and Highest Good housing infrastructure.

HVAC / Thermal Designer, Mechanical Engineer, Advocate for Smaller Living: Ron graduated from Portland State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He first studied at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point N.Y. after a congressional nomination. He studied and excelled in Marine Systems Engineering before leaving the academy. Ron is a veteran of two wars in two branches of service, the Navy and Army, over an 8-year span. He is adept with machines and has worked in the semiconductor manufacturing industry repairing and maintaining complex equipment. Most recently Ron has returned to his desire to do more design work by working with a large semiconductor manufacturer to help design the HVAC systems for their newest factory. 

Given time off and fair winds, you can find Ron sailing the Columbia River in his sailboat “Hot Chocolate” in the summer months. He also enjoys windsurfing, hiking, SCUBA diving, and is a licensed paraglider pilot. Fancying himself a globe trotter, Ron has been around the world once and has had the pleasure of meeting many people from many different places and sharing a drink and fine conversation with most. Ron will often enjoys delving into a good science fiction, historical fiction, steampunk, and anthropological non-fiction book at times. Referring to himself as a “romantic pragmatist,” Ron appreciates the magic of the real world and the attitude of Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RON!

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One Community is happy to welcome Zdenek Jurik  to the One Community Design Team!

Zdenek Jurik – P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer: Zdenek attended college in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia and received his A.A.S. in Mechanical Technology from the Industrial School of Mechanical Engineering, a Diploma in Engineering, Design, Testing and Inspection of Cranes and Steel Construction from the National Institute of Work Safety, and completed additional courses in Material Technology Welding through the National Research Center of Welding. His expertise spans a broad spectrum of engineering calculation and design including ponds, underground water storage, marine public landings, piers, bridges, roads, sites, retaining structures (concrete, stl. piles, wood), and hydrology. He as also created complete structural designs for libraries, hospital additions, education centers, ice skating and tennis sport facilities, banks, residential homes, production buildings and museums, pressure vessels, and dams. Also analysis and design for special aluminum structures (International and North America), cranes, and hoists. He is an expert witness in Structural and Civil Engineering with extensive hands-on experience and knowledge of Autocad, Risa, Enercalc and 3D Finite Element Analysis. As a One Community consultant, Zdenek is helping with the complete engineering details of the aquapini and walipini structures. He is a licensed professional engineer, USA, Corporate member of Dispute Board Federation, Geneva, Switzerland, and President of ABC Engineering P.E. (207-542-9773 / [email protected] /www.abcengineer.com).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZDENEK!

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One Community is facilitating change for the people who want it with a philosophy of teaching people how to live for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

  Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

  

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#47) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 13, 2014:

Facilitating Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #47

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

FACILITATING CHANGE INTRO @0:10

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:05

• Matter and Materials Lesson Plan mindmap is complete! – we’re now working on the webpage
• Values image research is 50% complete – we hope to finish the rest this week
• We’ve started a Strategies for Memorizing and Remembering page as part of the Knowledge and Wisdom curriculum

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:56

• 50 ‘final’ Food Forest page plants researched behind the scenes, images also formatted
• Highest Good food open source portal being redesigned and it’s now 90% done
• Large-scale Aquapini 3-D progress details below
• Aquapini roof engineering design #2 is done compliments of Zdenek Jurik

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:35

• Finished adding metric to the whole website!
• Finished the hands in 3D for the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village
• Started the beginnings of the 2nd furniture design for the Earthbag Village homes
• Finished the final adjustments and additions to the phase-1 Straw Bale Village CAD
• Victor Herber has begun work on the Vermiculture toilet designs

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:25

• Finished the Social Dome fireplace and South-exit/emergency exit in 3-D
• Finished CAD outdoor pool, Dining Dome 2nd floor redesign, and other updates

FACILITATING CHANGE IN DETAIL: @11:30

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are facilitating change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• Learn about the components: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together:  How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the team finished the Matter and Materials Lesson Plan mindmap:

Lesson Plan Mindmap for “Matter and Materials” – Click to Visit Related Lesson Plan Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are facilitating change through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity :

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team, with the help of Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics), finished the rock aesthetics by the pond, added plant overhang details, Wye plumbing fixtures, and correct 3″ (.91 m) media bed piping:

Large-scale Aquapini 3D Updates – Click to Enlarge

We also did a detailed sun study on Large-scale Aquapini with our current roof design and for our specific location. Here are the results:

Aquapini Sun Looking Southwest – Click to Enlarge

Aquapini Sun Looking Northwest – Click to Enlarge

Zdenek Jurik (P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer and founder of ABC Engineering) also completed the second set of  Large-scale Aquapini engineering outlines for the roof:

Aquapini Engineered Roof Design #2 – Click for the Open Source Hub

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are facilitating change through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) finished the hands in 3D for the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village:

Tropical Atrium Hands Basic Design Completed in 3D – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) has also begun designing the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. Whereas the first layout was purposed for a couple or family with a child, this next layout is being designed as shared accommodations for two students/interns/visiting friends, etc. It will feature two beds and two work stations and the beginnings of it look like this:

Earthbag Village Furniture Design 2 Developing – Click Image for the Open Source Hub

This last week, Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also finished the final adjustments and additions to the phase-1 Straw Bale Village CAD. Here it is:

One Community Straw Bale Village in CAD – Click for the Open Source Hub with an Image You Can Enlarge

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are facilitating change through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished the Social Dome fireplace and South-exit/emergency exit in 3-D:

SEGO Fireplace and Emergency South Exit Added in 3D – Click for the Open Source Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished the CAD outdoor pool, Dining Dome 2nd floor redesign, and other updates. Here are screen shots of his work in progress:

Open Source Duplicable City Center evolving in CAD – Click to Enlarge

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one. The specifics of how we are accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

Our four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own. It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

We are open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that we create, the more demand there will be for spreading the model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution. Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed we will additionally be ready to expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

We are building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way
We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting
Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community. Here are the constantly expanding hubs for everything we are open sourcing and free-sharing:

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate
Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion
As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world. Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything we do as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

Our open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is open source developing and free-sharing options for those who want to participate in creating better examples of food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit business design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more… all for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology

CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#46) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 6, 2014, about creating better:

Creating Better
One Community Weekly Progress Update #46

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

• Creating Better intro @0:10
• Creating better education
  • Highest Good education: @1:30
  • Highest Good education: Social Sciences Molecule image research is done @1:90
  • Highest Good education: Working on Values image research (10% done) @2:30
  • Highest Good education: Relative Space Lesson Plan is done @2:47
  • Highest Good education: Working on the Matter Lesson Plan (outline is 90% done) @3:38
  • Highest Good education: Welcome Randie Gottlieb to the team @3:56
• Creating better food
  • Highest Good food: @4:30
  • Highest Good food: Food Forest page is complete @5:20
  • Food infrastructure 3-D progress finishing rafts, updating media beds, testing fountains @6:30
  • Food infrastructure initial roof engineering begun thanks to the help of Zdenek Jurik @7:10
  • Highest Good food open source portal redesign now 60% done @7:38
  • Reworked the custom food application design (see notes below) @8:20
• 75% done adding metric system measurements to all our pages @9:50
• Creating better housing
  • Highest Good housing: @10:30
  • Extensive research on Rocket Mass Heaters and alternatives @10:45
  • Hands progressing in the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village @11:45
• Creating better city center
  • Duplicable City Center: @12:35
  • Duplicable City Center: Bathroom touchups, outlets, doors to Living Dome done @13:00
  • Duplicable City Center: Finishing up the final 1st floor details in CAD  @13:22
  • Duplicable City Center: Initial details of the pool transition point @13:30
• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @14:10

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CREATING BETTER FOOD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating better Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support food self-sufficiency, global collaboration, and bio-diversity :

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the team finished the deep water culture rafts, added media bed details, and tested 3 different waterfalls:

Click image to learn what we will grow in these structures

GLOBAL FOOD COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE

UPDATE: A PLANT APPLICATION WITH THE DETAIL, OPEN SOURCE, AND COLLABORATIVE INPUT 
ABILITY WE DESIRE NOW EXISTS: CLICK HERE FOR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE

One Community is creating better and has amassed vast amounts of information over the past 3 years, and we’re now looking to create a database that will help structure and manage that information. Guy Fraser, our newest collaborative partner, is helping us organize it with the intent to create an open source and globally-usable and updatable plant and food resource. This in turn will enable us to make our information more freely available and manageable to the mainstream. We may also be able to find a way to integrate this in with the ACE Application design and function for seamless data input by all collaborative Highest Good teacher/demonstration hubs.

This last week was a big shift in how this application design was being planned. Here are Guy’s updated outline and strategy notes for creating better:

Phase 1: Create initial search engine

Specifically a web page that has two things: A search box and an interactive pictorial dendogram.

If user has some idea of what they are looking for, they can just enter it in the search box (common name, latin name, flower color, keyword, category [fruit, flower, veg…], etc). Suggestions will appear as they type, and when they select something the dendogram will automatically update to show their selection.

Or, they can just browse/explore the dendogram – this is very useful when you don’t know the name of the plant, you need some visual way to find out what it is… A very rough mockup is show below for illustrative purposes:

Dendogram Mockup

The dendogram is just an interactive way to browse a taxonomy. The orange circles above would be plants – instead of being orange there’d be a photo of the plant in them. The small grey circles (which would be bigger in real version) are parent groups in the taxonomy – they’d have photo of the defining attribute for their associated part of the taxonomy (eg. leaf shape). The blue circles are ‘collapsed’ parts of the taxonomy – click them and they expand out to the grey/orange circles.

Over time, more visual search methods would be added – flower color, fruit finder, and so on. We’d just add to it bit by bit as we get more info available.

Phase 2: Links to external data / searches

In this phase we start adding in links to wikipedia, pubmed, etc. Users can click through to external sites for more information on each plant or part of the taxonomy.

A feature would be added to allow users to suggest specific links, they’d have to provide some metadata about the link (eg. short description, etc).

Where possible, we’d harvest external links as well – eg. scanning pubmed, USDA, etc., and bulk creating specific links with the additional metadata.

Phase 3: Crowdsource photos & macro-morphology

We’d add features that allow users to upload their own photos for plants.

Working with a good photographer, we’d create some “how to” videos to show people how to take great photos of plants (eg. how to get a photo of just the flower on a white background, etc).

As part of this process we’d allow people to define what part of the plant they are photographing: Whole plant, flower, leaf, etc. As such, we’ll start to build up information about the macro-morphology of plants, complete with pictures. And this then allows us to link data to parts of the plant (eg. nutrition for the leaf, medical uses for the root, etc).

Phase 4: Add “Find sellers” / donate options

Add a way for people to donate – either their time (adding more photos / info) or some money (to go towards hosting costs, etc).

Add a way for people to search popular online stores (eg. amazon.com) to see if they can buy a selected plant online. They’d pay the seller, but via referral ID we’d get a cut of the money = like a donation.

We could also add a way for small sellers to get their sites listed (a link to their site) based on geographical location of the end-user for a tiny fee or donation?

Phase 5: Problem solver

Here we add in a problem solver – user can upload photo of the problem they are having, then others can suggest ways to fix it. Rating system allows good solutions to bubble up to the top.

Phase 6: Start adding in meaty data

This is where we start to become the ‘wikipedia of plants’. Rather than just linking to external data, which is in a cacophony of different formats and qualities, we’d start to embed data directly in our site in a much cleaner format.

We’d start with things that average end user will be interested in – such as how to cultivate the plant, how to harvest fruit, and so on. But over time we’d start adding in detailed scientific data as well…

Phase 7: Facilitate mass gathering of scientific data

By now we should have lots of people using the site and lots of great content (photos, links & info). We will also by this time have some idea where users are based geographically, which plants are most popular, etc…

We could do things like chose a state / county and then find labs with required chromatography kit and see if they’d donate some time (eg. over a weekend) so that locals could bring in plants to have them analyzed. We’d provide forms for locals so they could record date/time, geolocation, etc., with each sample. We’d provide packs for schools to get kids involved. We’d show the labs how to upload results to the site (or how to divest that task to the person who brought in the plant sample). Whatever it takes. This sort of thing could be done for soil as well.

As we start to get detailed info in for plants, directly hosted in our site, we can start to summarize that data in the taxonomy – make it easier to spot trends, etc. (Yes, we’d still try and import existing data where possible – eg. USDA, etc).

Ideally we’d want each lab to repeat this process at least twice a year, ideally four times a year, so that we can see how seasons affect the plants. We’d work out what the major costs are and find innovative ways to overcome them to avoid putting too much strain on the labs.

By getting decent metadata about lab results, such as where/when samples were taken, we can start to build up much more detailed info about plants worldwide. For example, we can start to build plant distribution maps:

Hypothetical Plant Distribution Map

We’d be able to compare species analysis based on location, soil type, altitude, season and a whole bunch of other stuff. We’d know where species are growing around the world (we could easily do a data gathering campaign just asking people to list plants in their neighborhood). We might even be able to determine changes to an ecosystem over time – eg. if a group of enthusiasts do an annual audit of plants (or a specific species) in their neighborhood, we’d be able to visualize changes. We’d be able to note that a specific region is missing data and then coordinate with people in that region to go out and find out what’s growing there… List is endless.

In order to do this sort of stuff we need armies of volunteers all over the world – both amateurs and professionals. It’s for this reason that I think we should focus first on becoming the ‘google of plants’ and the needs of ordinary end-users first and foremost. Without them, we’re never going to reach the critical mass needed to do the more advanced stuff on a bigger scale.

Of course, we would also be adding our own data to the site – eg. detailed info on the plants in the food forest, etc.

CREATING BETTER HOUSING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating better housing. Highest Good housing is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) fine-tuned the shape of the internal “hands” feature in 3-D for the Tropical Atrium. Here are pictures of the new design and placement (almost complete):

One Community Tropical Atrium 3D Progress – Click to Learn More About this Structure

CREATING BETTER CITY CENTER – DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating better city center. A Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished the final bathroom touchups, added outlets, and added the glass door entryways to the Living Dome:

Duplicable City Center 3-D Progress – Click to visit the Open Source Hub

Rob Gjerde (Swimming Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting) also made progress this last week on the transition point for the indoor/outdoor pool. Here’s an image describing how this area will be closed off in the winter:

Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition-point Door Design

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

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CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING BETTER

One community is creating better. One Community is creating better place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can better create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating better resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community is creating better and will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING BETTER WITH THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating better and sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is creating better and accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating better and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating better.

One Community is happy to welcome Dr. Randie Gottlieb to the One Community Education Team!

Dr. Randie Gottlieb – Transformational Educator:  Randie is the head of UnityWorks, an international diversity training firm; co-founder of the Mona Foundation, supporting grassroots educational initiatives around the world; and adjunct professor of Multicultural Education at Heritage University on the Yakama Nation Reservation. She holds degrees in education from Cal State, Boston University and Harvard. Believing that unity is one of the overarching needs of our time, and after work and travel in over 30 countries, Randie saw an urgent need for easy-to-use materials to teach the values of diversity and the benefits of unity. This led to writing her book, Teaching Unity, and the development of a series of workshops and courses on unity in diversity and overcoming prejudice. Randie and One Community share a desire to create a paradigm shift from the widespread view that we are separate races, from entrenched prejudices passed down from previous generations, from the prevailing notion of us and them, to the recognition that we are one human race. With this shared vision, Randie donated her book to One Community and we will be integrating her teaching’s and exercises into the curriculum of the Education for Life Program to help teach these shared values and promote Randie’s amazing book and how to teach and share diversity and unity.

If you’d like to learn more about Randie and her work, go to:

• The Teaching Unity Facebook Page
• The Teaching Unity website for free PowerPoints on unity, diversity and overcoming prejudice
• Constructive Conversations on Race (a $2 download)
• THIS PAGE to buy her book: Teaching Unity

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RANDIE!

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One Community believes we create the world through our actions and our intent. With this in mind, we are forwarding a new paradigm of action and intent for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#45) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of December 30th, 2013 to January 5th, 2014:

We Create the World
One Community Weekly Progress Update #45

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

• We create the world intro @:11
• Overview of this week’s world-changing progress @3:40
• Highest Good education: cross integration of Core Curriculum to Curriculum now complete @6:10
• Highest Good education: Social Sciences image research 90% done @9:20
• Highest Good education: Relative Space lesson plan mindmap is complete @11:40
• Highest Good food: 40 more Food Forest page plants added @14:40
• Food infrastructure 3-D moved pond and hardware, adding in rafts, piping and other details @17:28
• Created Sketchup Plant resource page and tutorial video @19:40
• Highest Good food open source portal now being redesigned @22:22
• Highest Good housing: Hands progressing in the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village: @23:40
• SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub 4th floor bathrooms and main floor locker area in 3-D @28:10
• Welcome Tyler Gonnsen to the Pioneer team. He’ll be working on the ACE App @5:45
• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @30:30

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want to see through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• Learn about the components: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together:  How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the team completed the Relative Space lesson plan mindmap. Here is the updated image:

Lesson Plan Mindmap for “Relative & Dimensional Space” – Click to Enlarge

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want through a new world paradigm of Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini and walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini and walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the team moved the pond and all hardware down 8 inches and started adding in piping, deep-water culture rafts, and other final details. Here’s a collection of screen shots of these changes including one of the ways we communicate with each other on GoogleDocs:

Click image for the aquapini and walipini open source hub

SKETCHUP PLANTS INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO AND DATABASE CREATION

We also created a Sketchup Plant resource page and this video that goes with it:

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want through a new world paradigm of Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) made significant progress on getting the internal “hands” feature in 3-D into the Tropical Atrium. Here are pictures of the design and placement work in progress:

One Community Tropical Atrium 3-D Hand Positioning Progress – Click to Visit the Overview Page

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want through a new world paradigm through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished most of the 3-D work on the 4th floor bathrooms and added in lockers to the 1st floor area:

Duplicable City Center 4th Floor Bathrooms and 1st Floor Lockers Developing in 3-D – Click to visit the Open Source Hub

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community. Here are the constantly expanding hubs for everything we are open sourcing and free-sharing:

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WE CREATE THE WORLD – WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.